Bangkok Dangerous (2008)

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Movie
German title Bangkok Dangerous
Original title Bangkok Dangerous
Country of production United States
original language English ,
Thai
Publishing year 2008
length approx. 98 minutes
Age rating FSK 18/16 (abridged version)
JMK 14
Rod
Director Oxide Pang Chun ,
Danny Pang
script Jason Richman
production Nicolas Cage ,
Norman Golightly ,
William Sherak ,
Jason Shuman
music Brian Tyler
camera Decha Srimantra
cut Mike Jackson ,
Curran Pang
occupation

Bangkok Dangerous is an American action-thriller from the year 2008 . Directed by Oxide Pang Chun and Danny Pang . It is a remake of their own film from 2000, for which they wrote the script themselves. Jason Richman wrote the script for the remake .

action

The hit man Joe carried out an assignment in Prague and murdered a person there. He also kills a young local man who apparently helped him during his time in Prague so as not to leave any witnesses. He travels to Bangkok , where he is supposed to kill four people for ganglord Surat. Then he wants to get out of his illegal trade. In Bangkok he hires the pickpocket Kong, whom he uses as a middleman for his meetings with the gangsters and who meets with a dancer named Aom in a nightclub. Kong and the dancer get closer and closer in the course of their encounters.

Joe's first two contract killings go smoothly - he shoots the first victim in traffic and drowns the second in a hotel pool at night. Originally, he had planned to kill Kong according to his own rules before leaving. But after receiving information from him about the second target, he begins to train Kong. After the second murder, the employers try to track down Joe by chasing Kong. But Kong informs Joe, who then unequivocally warns the gangsters against a further search for him. Joe decides to act as Kong's mentor and pass his deadly skills on to the boy. So Kong helps his mentor Joe in the third contract killing, but not everything goes as planned and the victim is only shot after a boat and motorcycle chase.

In between, Joe meets the deaf and dumb pharmacist Fon, with whom he falls in love and with whom he goes out a couple of times. When he visits her mother, he pretends to be a banker. But when he shoots two street gangsters who want to take his wallet from him in her presence, she turns away from him, terrified and horrified.

His fourth target is to be the Prime Minister of Thailand , whom Kong praises as a politician close to the people. Joe had his rifle ready during a parade when Kong's words made him doubt. Because he hesitates instead of firing the fatal shot, he is discovered by police snipers and put under fire. He barely manages to escape through the panicked crowd. Kong and Aom have since been taken hostage by Surat and Kong is forced to reveal Joe's whereabouts in Bangkok. Joe is now a target of the gangsters himself and is attacked by four killers in his apartment. He can put them out of action with self-made explosive devices and faces the decision to save Kong or leave the country. Joe decides to rescue Kong, so he breaks into the gang's headquarters and frees Kong and Aom after shooting almost all of the gang's members.

Surat flees to his car with three accomplices. Joe sees him and kills the three other gang members, whereupon he sits in the car with the gang leader. When the police arrive at the scene, he decides to kill both himself and Surat with one shot.

Alternative ending

In an alternate ending to the DVD version, Kong helps Joe escape from the police. When the two say goodbye, Kong receives an additional cash bonus and Joe leaves the country on a boat.

background

The film was shot in Bangkok , Phetchaburi and Prague . The shooting took place in August and September 2006. Production costs were estimated at 40 million US dollars . The film celebrated its world premiere in Spanish cinemas on August 22, 2008. It was shown in France from August 27, 2008 and in the Netherlands one day later. The cinema release in Great Britain and the USA took place on September 5, 2008. In Germany the distributor Constantin decided to only release the film on DVD . It was released on DVD on January 8, 2009. The free TV premiere of the film was on March 20, 2011 on ProSieben . On the opening weekend, the film grossed just under 7.8 million US dollars in the US, and total revenues in the US amounted to 15.2 million US dollars.

On September 19, 2006, there was a quiet coup in Thailand , during which filming was only interrupted for six hours.

When entering Bangkok, Joe uses a passport in the name of Vincent Cadillac at the airport. This is a homage to Nicolas Cage's role as Frank Cadillac in the film " Next ".

Soundtrack

The score , composed by Brian Tyler , was released on September 16, 2008 as a 31-track soundtrack by Lions Gate Records .

No. title
1. Bangkok Dangerous
2. Assassin
3. Bangkok Dangerous Main Title
4th Fon's theme
5. The pupil
6th Bangkok Reflections
7th Runner
8th. Pursuit
9. Underground Temple
10. Prague
11. Silent retribution
12. Explosive device
13. Gangland Grenade
14th The Hitman
15th Elephant
16. Rain
17th Scoping Out The Hit
18th Second thoughts
19th Pool assassination
20th What I Do
21st Hide and seek
22nd Floating market
23. River Chase
24. The performance
25th Bangkok Downtown
26th Knife test
27. Fire
28. The meeting
29 The Compound Shootout
30th Yearning
31. Fate

Reviews

Jordan Mintzer wrote in Variety magazine on August 28, 2008 that the film adds a Thai touch to the lone hit man subgenre. However, the result is not particularly strong. The directing Brothers Pang merely increased the "decibel strength" of the shootings and the lushness of the plot compared to the original film of the same name from 1999.

According to Björn Becher from the editorial team of Filmstarts , Bangkok Dangerous is “a lame thriller that went down at the box office in the USA and is therefore rightly only available direct-to-DVD in Germany. […] In the remake, the audience is presented with the worn out cliché of the stumbling killer who suddenly discovers love and his conscience. The Pang brothers not only gain nothing new from this old-fashioned topic, they don't even manage to translate it into solid action food. Joe's development is rarely credible. [...] The climax of the miserable character development is Joe's mutation to be a do-gooder. "

The lexicon of the international film judged that Bangkok Dangerous was "a visually very attractive film, played in the main role listlessly, which only marginally rewritten the script without being able to fill the empty spaces with atmosphere."

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Bangkok Dangerous . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, October 2008 (PDF; test number: 115 534 DVD).
  2. ↑ Release certificate for Bangkok Dangerous . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, November 2008 (PDF; release for the abridged version).
  3. ↑ Locations according to the Internet Movie Database
  4. ↑ a b c Budget and box office results according to the Internet Movie Database
  5. ↑ a b Background information according to the Internet Movie Database
  6. ↑ a b c d e Start dates according to the Internet Movie Database
  7. ^ Film review , Variety , Jordan Mintzer, August 28, 2008
  8. ^ Film review , film starts , Björn Becher
  9. ↑ Bangkok Dangerous. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed April 23, 2011 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 

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